Matthew McConaughey Up for Villain Role in The Stand

Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey is reportedly up to play the villainous Randall Flagg in Warner Bros.' long-gestating feature film adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.

Deadline claims McConaughey has to choose between playing Flagg, "the personification of evil," in director Josh Boone's movie or starring in the mining scandal drama Gold. Michael Mann was previously attached to direct Gold, but now Stephen Gaghan is at the helm.

The site stresses, though, that Warners' pursuit of McConaughey for The Stand "is by no means a firm situation."

Jamie Sheridan previously played Randall Flagg in the '90s TV miniseries of The Stand.

Josh Boone, who also directed The Fault in Our Stars, reportedly aims to adapt The Stand as "a single, R-rated movie that will be faithful to the book."